"If it had been a director in the US making the first episode of Downton Abbey, who had been involved in setting the tone, casting the main roles, setting the whole thing up – that director would by right have shared financially in the success.
Although music and wine were flowing, the young and beautiful in attendance spoke in hushed tones, casting furtive glances over their shoulders.
The argument uses the Tea Party's philosophy and tone to cast that opposition in a harsh light.
At the end of "The White Snake," after an unexpected plot twist changes the story's tone, the cast delivers a closing speech about the fleetingness of life and the sadness of loss.
Despite lapses in pace, tone, and casting, the movie is a showcase both for Mastroianni and for Visconti's simultaneously baroque and limpid style.
Putting together the show, he said, is "a lot like directing a picture -- you get to determine the tone, the casting, the feel".
It's a sort of Brave New World knockoff that owes a substantial debt to the tone and casting of The Hunger Games.
Performers with an array of skin tones are cast as secondary characters who may serve to counsel, counterpoint or liberate the white protagonists, but have no discernible history of their own – and certainly no antagonism towards the white characters.
In addition, the fact that -de in the V-DE construction is pronounced with the neutral tone also casts doubt on any proposal that it is a regular verb.
Arriving for my technical rehearsal the day before my show was to open, the staff at the venue spoke to me in almost deferential tones, eyes cast downward, each response punctuated with a sort of spastic half-bow.
Intervention for spasticity of the ankle plantarflexors in physical therapy may include tone-inhibiting casting and/or orthoses for the ankle and foot.
